I've two more suggestions for your 2026, reading list. These Eighth Tower, Dark Fiction anthologies feature stories I wrote, so do pardon my shameless self promotion, but shucks, here it comes all the same.
One edition is new: Night Falls: Stories inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Like the saga that inspired it, the curation is, to say the least, unconventional.
Its stories, along with the one I composed ("The Greater Goo"), were written by J. Edwin Buja, Chris McAuley (who also performed as the volume's editor), Nora B. Peevy, RDJ Armstrong, Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq, Erica Ruppert and Carri Wiggins. Each tale commemorates a facet of the writer/director's titular saga, which he formed with filmmaker/novelist Mark Frost. There are also sprinkles of other Lynch creations throughout the volume to heighten its offbeat blend.
The Black Stone: Stories For Lovecraftian Summonings (the first in Eighth Towers' Dark Fiction series and now the first to appear in a revised edition) pulls from Robert E. Howard's tale of the same name, which the Conan author penned in honor of his kindred correspondent, H.P. Lovecraft.
The curation's stories are from Ramsey Campbell, Brian M. Sammons, Glynn Owen Barras, Lucy A. Snyder. E.A. Black, Chris Kelso, Andrew Coulthard, Stephen Mark Rainey, Kevin Lewis, Richard Alan Scott, Richard Alan Scott, Russell Smeaton, J. Edwin Buja, Made in DNA, David Argranoff, Pete Rawlik, Brian C. Short, John Chadwick, David Voyles, Konstantine Paradias, Love Kolle, Edward Morris, Parry Milton, Phil Breach, Garret Cook, Andrew Freudenberg, Sarah Walker and of course (once more), yours truly. (In this case, my fable is called "Tentacled" and was based on an earlier tale called "Space Monster," which was included in my long-ago endeavor, Wonderful, Magical, Literary Elixirs.)
I believe that each edition will grant ample escape. Give one or the other (better yet both) a whirl. They're inclined to haunt your summer, but if you've a penchant for the strange, such should be most welcome.
Night Falls:
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